Coming soon

I’ve been pretty busy lately, though I have been working on some ideas/code for a new version of this site.(though i plan on switching to a new domain that i already registered). I’ve also designed myself a new logo.

Its an Ambigram, spin it. Tell me what you think.

An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation.

For those that are here looking at my work, I am available for hire and would love to help you out. Please feel free to email me.

where’ve you been (all my life)

You may have noticed that I have not updated this site for months. Reason? Well I’ve been busy and also I’ve become immersed in all the web+social+2.0 hype. So really I have been updating, just not here, instead on tumblr, twitter, flickr, facebook, etc. Video games, mountain biking, and an expanding list of clientele has also kept me from updating, though I don’t blame them.

With that said, there is some point to this post. Which is to inform all those that come here, that I’m currently in the process of updating my portfolio. Like new version, new works, new effects, though I am keeping the colors(plus some new ones). Want to see what I have so far? Well tooo bad, I’m just not ready yet. I will say that if you are savvy, you might be able to stumble on my test server on edwardrock.com

Check back soon! I promise, good stuff.

Dan Mumford

Is it a coincidence that I have waited 5 months to write my 5th review? No. Was I expecting to write it anytime soon? No. Did I run across Dan Mumford’s work this morning, and immediately began collecting screen shots of this work to write a review about. Hell Yes! I mean, who could pass up work with such detail from an up and coming artist? Speaking of detail, I’m not going to go into to much as to why I like him, his work speaks(..Yells) for itself.

Info about the artist.

Dan Mumford is a 23 year old male illustrator/designer/rock star, “with an obsession for drawing hands, hair and tentacles”, who resides out of Bethnal Green, London, UK.

In The Belly Of A Shar | for The Gallows

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Makeupage.com

Finally, here it is! makeupage.com

makeupage.com is the personal portfolio of the amazing and talented makeup artist Stephanie Circhirillo

click here to see more…

Woah! woaahhh…

What happened? Sites down, no updates, no new music, nothing, nothing, nothing...?

Well lets recap as to why there has been no signs of life on edwardrock.com since August.

Issue #1: edwardrock.com is offline
A bit of site info to get you started, first the site is hosted at Dreamhost, which is great. The reason for telling you this though, is the my domain is NOT hosted there. Stupid I know, but once I explain where it’s hosted, you might better understand. So? What is the name of this horrible domain hosting company. Registerfly. Yeah, back in the day when I first registered edwardrock.com, I had no idea how much of a pain in the ass this company was. Well like many out there, my domain was sold off, and then sold off again. Currently I have it back, though I cannot bring it over to dreamhost yet. It’s safe, but not as safe as it could be and I’m working on that.

there is more after the cut!!

Im not dead yet!

Not yet, though had some close times. Life has been incredibly busy for me lately, and that has left the site once again collecting cobwebs. Even so, this site is on my mind all the time, and I’ve come to the conclusion that once again it needs a re-design. I’ve already started work on the next version..

highlights? sneak preview? hints? cheat codes? you ask??

Well so far its 100% (I am going to separate this blog and my work sections) flash, so far 700+lines of actionscript, with another 800more till completion. The work section will be the more predominant section, blog being second, which will include the music blog.

If you need more, check out my tumblr, as its tracking my online happenings.  edrock.tumbler.com

Jeff Soto

Here we are again for another artist review, for my fourth review I chose artist Jeff Soto, and as you will see below, there are many many reason to choose such an artist. Some of the unique qualities of Jeff’s artwork would be, first and foremost (for myself at least) his unique/uncanny color pallet which is used in all of his paintings. The second quality I would choose would be his distinct character designs, and their blend of both mechanical and natural features. I could continue going on about all of the things I find to be amazing throughout Jeff’s massive about of works. Rather than describing all of these qualities, I would much rather you see them for yourselves, and with that I present to you a small selection of Jeff Soto’s art.

Info about the artist.

Jeff Soto is a 31 year old male painter/artist/creative guy who resides out of Riverside, CA. with his wife Jennifer and daughter Shannon. He is a graduate (with Distinction) from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

Fall | Acrylic on wood | 18x18

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Sneak Preview

It’s been much to long since my last update, and I can say that the reason for this has been..well, because I’ve been busy. “Busy with what?”, you might ask, well that’s the point of this post. With that said, here is a sneak preview of a website I’ve been working on, that is almost ready to launch(it really is, I’m just waiting on content!!).

makeupage which is a portfolio website for my friend Stephanie Circhirillo who is a make-up artist

This is is built 100% in flash, fed by xml, and is completely dynamic to the content loaded into it(width,height,color,text content).
I hope to have the rest of the content needed to finish the site, and get it uploaded asap.

Also there will be a new Artist Feature by the end of this week, along with some song reviews, so please check back!

Drout750

This third artist feature is on the ever so creative works of Drout750. I wasn’t able to find much on this artist in terms of personal information (name, dob, schools attended), however as you will soon see, his work speaks wonders. He has a very unique way of showing his character in both a cute/fun and down & dirty way. Without further ado, I present a selection of works by Drout750.

Info about the artist.

Drout750 or “Dro” is a 25 year old male designer / illustrator / cartoonist / painter / internet all star out of L.A.

For Those About to Rock

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Aya Kato

For my second artist feature I chose again to do it on an amazing female artist Aya Kato. I chose this artist not knowing much at all about her, though I had seen some works before (on a side note, I had added some of Aya’s images to my ”neat” folder, in which I have an ongoing collection of imagery that I find beautiful). With that said, I know present you a small sampling of the works of Aya Kato.

Info about the artist.

Aya Kato is a 25 year old female artist out of Japan, who studied Visual Art Education and Graphic Design at the Aichi University of Education. Some of her most notible works include artwork for a Microsoft WindowsXP TV Commercial and the music video for Tori Amos’s song “Sleeps with Butterflies”, in which it featured digital recreations of some of Aya’s works merged with Tori as the subject. Her style is uncanny blend of dark Art Nouveau and Manga/Japanese pop art

Elegance

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Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki launched a new version of her website 2 days ago, after looking over some of her new works (I have been a fan of hers for quite a while) I thought to myself, “I should showcase some of her work on my site, with hopes that it will send some viewers her way, and hopefully create some new fans”. So that’s what this is, my first of many Featured Artists posts.

First I would like to start of with a little info about the artist.

Audrey is a 24 year old female artist out of L.A., a graduate from the Pratt Institute, who creates some of the most beautiful and surreal paintings that I’ve ever seen. She has an uncanny style of depicting the female form, showing the subjects in innocent and also very sensual/erotic ways.

Owari|Oil on Wood|2006

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Reason To Post

It has been awhile since my last post, and to tell you the truth the reason I haven’t posted in so long is sad. I’ve just been too busy with work, and none of the projects I’m working on are ready to be posted here. I do have something I can post about though. While looking through my “dumb” folder, I came across very first mock-up for this site.Here it is, in all it’s glory!

Pretty exciting huh? I’m glad i didnt go with this color scheme, unique, but bland.click continue for more....

couple of updates

Ive added a couple of updates to the work section, though they are not really new. I added the last two versions of my site (under the edwardrock.com domain that is), they are under the website section. You can also click on the images below:

Check them out if you get a chance, each one has some interesting things built into it.

In other news, I’m extremely busy at work which is why I haven’t updated in a while. We are gearing up for trade show season, which means everyone is running around like crazy.I did however upload some example files to the music player how to post. check it out and comment if you need help.

Music Player how-to

Ive been getting a lot of questions on how the music player on my site works. As you might have guessed (from listening to my music blog ) I love mash-ups, I find it fascinating how you can take two/three/four/however many songs and put them together to make something unique. That was the same approach I took to "mashing" the music player on my site together. The first step I took though was figuring out exactly what I did and didnt want. What I didnt want was a bulk flash player/play-list that ran off xml.There are a bunch out there already, like the XSPF Player (which I have pushed/pulled apart to make this with)


click continue below to read more and see a working examples of the player.

music i like

I’ve added a new feature to the site, well it’s new and then it’s not. See im really into music, I love every aspect of it, and I have a great time introducing new music to people. For a while now I have been posting music on my myspace (before i built this version of my site), since I was rebuilding this one, I though why not build it into it. So thats what I did, and then some of couse! Without further adieu I present

music i like is a music blog of sorts, I post music I like, you listen, and enjoy. If you want you can comment on the song, and I even set it up so it can be downloaded podcast form through itunes.
To do that just copy this link

http://edwardrock.com/index.php/site/musicilike/

into Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast in itunes!

inPRNT

inPRNT is a Freshly launched Artist driven print website. The premise of the site is simple, if you are an artist (that has some pretty amazing work), submit it to that site. They will take a look at it, and if it is good enough they will print it.

Facts: When people start buying it, you earn 50% of the sale. Artists maintain full rights to artwork, All prints are printed on extremely nice Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, They are printed with archival Epson inks. Prints are shipped flat, within a poly sheath, sandwiched between two pieces of corrugated cardboard, then sandwiched with an egg carton inside a larger box. All 11x17 prints are printed on 13x19 paper to give it a nice border that you can frame or just hang up on the wall.

Well now that the facts are out of the way, here are a couple of my favorites!

To Write Love On Her Arms

I just wanted to promote an amazing cause, it is called To Write Love on Her Arms.
Its an amazing story about a young lady, her recovery from addiction, those that were there to help, and those that are Still here to help.Here is what its all about:

To Write Love on Her Arms is a work in progress. This began with one broken girl, one painful night; addiction, depression, cutting. This is a glimpse at the five days that followed, a decision to love and to begin telling her true story. To Write Love on Her Arms is becoming something bigger, something hopeful. It’s the realization of what life can be when we commit to meeting a need. A friend of mine told me there’s no such thing as suicide prevention. This is an attempt to prove him wrong, to say that love can change a life. We can hold back the darkness. Rescue is possible.

100% of the profits from clothing sales goes to people that suffer from addiction, depression, cutting, and others in need

I would like to salute Jamie Tworkowski on his work with this project, and of course Renee, to be able to fight when all looks lost. I know her story brings hope to so many people. I did for me. So with that I thank you!




Other TWLOHA Links
Direct Link to Story
Myspace
Flickr

Woah Updates

Site launched yesterday. Hooray!! So far so good.

Also I’ve updated the site with some more of my works.
NickCharrow.com


Remo Drumhead Box

Launch

That’s right! I descided today would be a good day to launch the site. I have submitted it to a couple of forums for review, so far the feedback has been great. That is not to say the site is perfect, i’m sure there are a few bugs here and there. I address all those as soon as possible, and HEY! if you find anything let me know in a comment.

So Close

The offical launch of the site is very very close.

Things to do:
Finish contact section
Upload a few more works
Integrate stat system
Bug check

so very close

When will it stop

So I had planned on launching the site by now, but things have just been soo crazy. First I sold my condo, and now I have 10 days(from today) to find a new place to live. That so far has NOT been easy! Work has been crazy and because of my personal life being so crazy, I’ve had to find time to make up projects. The interesting part about that is I have no time.

pres·sure
1. The act of pressing.
2. The condition of being pressed.

This is something I usually work very very well in, as of lately though it has been taking it’s toll. No sleep, and when I do sleep nothing wakes me up. Energy, I feel like I never have enough. Food, I find myself eating less and less. Sore, my knees and back for some reason. Who knows whats going on, I hope soon it will all work out though.


On another note, if you like tee-shirts check out this blog:

TEES.com

TEEES is an online resource for t-shirts, maintained by a guy calling himself Nico, and a female fashion blogger.

Almost Done

The site is very close to being complete (I know it may not look that way...) there are just a few things left that I need to do, and before you know it. BAM it will be live. Speaking of a few more things, google is launching another amazing service:

Picasa Web Albums

I should reviece an invite soon, when I do, I might have to write a review!

Bruno Sabastia

Check out the amazing dreamlike photography of Bruno Sabastia

Oddica

I recently purchased some shirts from Oddica.com. I must say it was one of the most enjoyable online purchasing experiences I’ve ever had. Not only that, but the shirts got to me super fast, wrapped in some of the most AMAZING packaging I’ve ever seen a shirt come in, came with buttons(with the same graphics that are on the shirts i bought), and some post cards. So if your looking for some really nice shirts, at a great price, and a bunch of free extras check out Oddica.com
Here are the three I bought.